Věra Chytilová Movies

Two teenage girls embark on a series of destructive pranks in which they consume and destroy the world around them.

The Emperor's mismanagement of his country is provoking some in his court to plot to overthrow him. He feels successful, at least, when he discovers...

An experimental retelling of the story of Adam and Eve which then progresses into an allegorical depiction of the loss of innocence.

Hana is a psychologist and a thoroughly independent woman. Her unemployed husband, jealous of his wife, finds a younger girlfriend, but their teenage...

A striking generational tragicomedy, A Hoof Here, a Hoof There is a caustic group portrait of pals who enjoy a tipple, all kinds of hi-jinks and...

Bohus is indolent and spends his days drinking brandy. One day he finds he has inherited a brickworks, several shops and a five-star hotel. Bohus...

After two troubled but powerful men rape a young hitchhiker who happens to be a vet, she drugs them and removes their testicles.

In a rare instance of literary adaptation, Chytilová was inspired by Franz Kafka’s writings. Mr. K stashes stolen jewelry away at home...

Chytilová was not allowed to direct films between 1969 and 1976. The sole exception was the made-for-TV film Kamarádi, now virtually...

A look at an over-loaded freight train departing from Prague.

An old man is wandering round a badly signposted and as yet mostly under construction Prague housing estate looking for the high rise block into...

Chytilová ran for Senate in 2006 as a Rovnost Šancí (The Equal Chance Party) candidate. The film is a collection of monologues...

Eva is a new member of a girl's boarding school and textile factory. She looks up to the free-spirited Jana who struggles against conformity and...

Documentary feature about Czech director Jiří Menzel, featuring Menzel himself as well as Miloš Forman, Emir Kusturica,...

Documentary about the making of Vera Chytilová's film DAISIES

An intellectual match between two dramatically different artists, one permanently unsure and frustrated and questioning everything, the other an...

A fictional story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's stay in Prague. The film, in no case, claims any historical facts. It only tries to evoke the spirit...

Eleven disparate adolescents, gathered for a skiing camp at an isolated winter resort, find themselves preyed upon and set against one another...

Documentary about Czech filmaker Vera Chytilova.